The Goodies "Funky Gibbon"
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- Опубликовано: 22 фев 2009
- The Goodies are a trio of British comedians (Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie), who created, wrote, and starred in a surreal British television comedy series called The Goodies during the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy.
The three actors in The Goodies met as students at the University of Cambridge, where Tim Brooke-Taylor was studying law, Graeme Garden was studying medicine, and Bill Oddie was studying English.
On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "Kung Fu Kapers" in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a black pudding-wielding Bill Oddie (master of the ancient Lancastrian martial art "Ecky-Thump") in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of "Hoots-Toot-ochaye." After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the settee and died from heart failure. His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments so pleasant. 
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These are quite clearly the three most stylish men that ever lived
Bill Oddie: ah yes this is my pop breakthrough
Tim Brooke-Taylor: looks fun
Graeme Garden: somebody please murder me on stage
In the 70's when this was first released, our family went into hysterics, rolling on the lounge room floor.
You absolute losers
So this is where the Minions stole their outfits
My dad is always singing this song and he's 50 now. I never knew it was a real song.
I can relate
Sadly I bought the record back in the day :-)
It was a great time to be a kid!
They copied it from your Dad. They owe him.
😂me too ! I’m 49 !! My sons saying,.what are you on about dad 🤣
Bill has great rhythm. Tim dances like your dad. Graeme just doesn't dance. 😂🥰
Thanks Ellis for bringing this to my attention
Fellow WPE lover!
"tie a yellow gibbon round the old oak tree".
You're truly evil
🤣😅😂
“Does your wrist go limp like a bent baboon?”…..whaaaaaat? Ha ha, this song is such a product of its time.
“Let your wrist go limp like a bent baboon”.
Brilliant!
"Let your wrist go limp like a bent baboon" when I was a kid in the 80s we sang this at the school disco!
The Goodies are like a mutant combination of two of my favorite pop culture groups, Monty Python and The Monkees.
The goodies worked with Monty python at Cambridge and John Cleese appeared in an episode of their show
From left to right: Bill Oddie (b. 1941), Graeme Garden (b. 1943), Tim Brooke-Taylor (1940 - 2020).
Had this played at my wedding reception.
You can tell that Graeme didn't want to sing this song...
One of the few songs you could never get away with singing at a Football Match 🤣
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yeah, if you was a right mug.
I think Bill was enjoying that just a little too much, Tim was just goin’ for it and poor Graham looked like he’d rather be anywhere but there LOL. Anyway thank you for posting this, I’d never seen it before.
That's what made Bill the star of the show
Which is ironic as Graham had the best arms for it, being as long as they are.
LOL I watched the video and was about to post the exact same thing
1978 or thereabouts: I got pissed off when a school coach driver said he didn't see the point of the Goodies. I boarded the coach with some street-wise girls, who were a few years older than me, and he asked "Did anyone see the Goodies last night?". I enthusiastically said "Yes!" and he said "I don't see the point of them." I was about 8 or 9 and felt personally injured! What a swine, and in front of those awesome punk girls!
The Goodies were, are, and will always be comedy genius. It's that simple.
Your sense of humour must be incredibly bad
I love them!
I loved the goodies Bill Oddie doing the Ecky-Thump is gold the group were just hilarious.
Anyone that laughs at this is under 6 yrs old
Oh do one … if you don’t like it the there’s plenty choice on RUclips for you like yoghurt knitting perhaps?
I am only 16 and remember watching the goodies when I was a little kid and laughing at stuff like kitten Kong and the puppets and this is just like the cherry on the cake it absolutely amazing
i loved this song, my mum and dad bought me this single when i was about eight.. i played it every day.. probably annoyed mum an dad but there you go
God them bloody flares used to get caught on the chain of my Raleigh Chopper bike when i used to cycle down to church.
I loved Graham when I was a kid. I always wanted his schemes to succeed, so he could take over the world lol.
Yeah, Graeme was the resident megalomaniac. He was certainly my favourite Goodie. Now “A Walk in the Black Forrest.”
Graeme was my hero too.
Man does time fly! These three used to make us kids laugh
Very talented with "The Goodies". Pure Comedy with the British trio including Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and bird watching with the binocular intelligent Bill Oddie.
I just messaged my sister and asked her if she remembers a song we used to sing as kids that was about a funky chicken. She linked this to me, I was not disappointed
My ringtone!!!! This ruled when i was a kid!! Ta for posting :-)
I have a couple of people in mind for which this will become their new ringtone.
Is this how the wiggles got there idea for the shirts from all different colours .ha ha love ❤ 😍 💖 ❣ 💕 this fun fun fun now let's gibbon time .
The 70s were a great time to be a kid and teenager. This was 47 years ago and everything gets dated. The whole point of nostalgia is remembering all the great times we had then.
Alan longmuir. Les mcKeown R.I.P.The Goodies Tim Brooke Taylor R.I.P.
I miss the Goodies!
Got the 12-DVD set yet?
Never missed a episode as a kid.
I often seek out oldies but goodies - but here we have an Oddie but Goodie 🤭
Bill Oddie had crazy rhythm.
How much more is Bill Oddie into this performance than the other two.
Graham once said something along the lines of
“Bill always wanted to be a rock star…and Tim was just fearless…but I always felt like a dad at his daughter’s disco!”
great stuff, how much do they NOT want to be there 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Imagine the outrage if this came out today 😆😆😆😆
Why you pleb
What you talking about, oddball?
LOL im probs the youngest person on hear to have heard of the goodies. BUZZZZIIIIIIINN. they are actually legend.
The pain of my surname being Gibbon..
+Jess Gibbon I share your pain. I'm glad this isn't popular now. My dad got bullied because of this. Still, great song!
+Cameron “Gibbster” Gibbon yeah me too! Ruined my life a little bit but still a great song haha!
+Jess Gibbon yeah gibo yer right
+Jess Gibbon TRY BEING CALLED "PARSONS".....PARSONS' NOSE...CHICKEN'S BUTT......came up with an answer which i've gifted my daughter......"Wheyyy....PARSONS' NOSE..WHEYY!!"......
....HORSE'S ASS!!!
Worked a treat for me....and now works for her.
Look on the brightside all of you GIBBONS......at least you are not named Titmarsh...whoahhh..that girl Ruth SUFFERED.
STICKS AND STONES and BROKEN BONES FOR THOSE WHO CALL ME PARSONS NOSE..
Truth is Emily, when folk actually GROW UP, they tend to call you by your first name...out of pure respect. My name is Parsons...i've had "Parsnip(a vegetable), Jarsons(maybe they mis-heard or were deaf), that became shortened over time to Jarse, somehow turned into "Jarsey", then Parse......so many changes along the way...one or two called me "Parson's nose"(meaning: CHICKEN'S ARSE...most of them got bored with that.....by the way, just for the record, i grew up with a Neil Gibbons(NG..Nice Guy)...most folk called him "Gibber"(see how names evolve ove the centuries)...i just called him Neil as soon as we met...and we rode motorbikes together...nice dude...worth looking on it this way...the song could easily have ended up as "THE FUNKY PARSONS"...which would have been.....erm, interesting. Jess Gibbon sounds like a cool name to me..look on the bright side...you could be named after a CHICKEN'S ARSE, like me, eh...think i'd rather be a Gibbon than a Chicken's arsehole...and i'll finish off by dedicating this comment to "all of the ARSEHOLES who called me...an arsehole(Parson's nose)"...i've taught my daughter to say "HORSE'S ASS to anyone who calls her "chicken's butt"...and she's used it...and it works according to her...EVERY TIME.
RESPECT TO ANYBODY CALLED GIBBON OUT THERE.
I remember the song. Didn't know it was by The Goodies. Thought it was some obscure one-hit wonder band.
This came back to me today we kids had great fun signing this.there was a guy in our class called john given so the song got changed to the funky given.we sang it at him regularly. He was not impressed😂😂😂
This is sure as hell better than "Disco Duck"...
no it is not, that's where you're wrong.
@@bp6329 You LIKE Rick Dees?!
@@LaDracul yes, and so do you.
I LOVE THE GOODIES
Anyone here in 2018?? Or am I the only one lol
Yes. I am "here" (whatever that means) in 2034
I'm here in 2018
I'm a robot from the future
Showing my Daughter The Goodies!
I'm here, love the Goodies. Got the boxset for Christmas.
In my local pub we used to play a game called the “Who game”. You had to get someone to say “Who”, for example “he’s just called you an idiot?” “Who?”.
Then half the pub would burst into “WHO WHO WHO THE FUNKY GIBBON” lol.
I will be showing my 4 yr grandson the song and dance movements. The Goodies rule
WPE sent me!
Me too Gabby would like this
And me 😂
awesome, one of the all time great TV shows.
Old TV is weird and scary. These days it's just scary.
Excellent and funny
that was funky gibbon by the Goodies to show that we are not adverse to a little bit of an-aar-key...
There was a creepy man lived at 38? down my street, called "Jack Fee", who bought a 'Yoga Mat" in about 1976 and got my mum and the woman next door to use it to 'work out'. He always wore a pink bow-tie and always smiled. He used to give us chocolate, (i.e. Kit Kats and Wagon Wheels), and he worked as a caretaker at the local 'college', (then it was where all the losers who couldn't get a job went.... and now it's a University!!!... Oh, how times change and how a bit of re-branding makes all the difference to the youff of the day!) ...
ANYWAY...I LOVED watching the Goodies... and Jack Fee @ No 38 bought me the Goodies album for 35p (Brand Spanking New!!). It was my first Album!! :D
He bought my elder sister (12 yrs old) an album called "Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers dancing Cheek to Cheek"... and after that moment I wasn't allowed into his house whist he "taught her how to waltz".
He fell asleep under a sunlamp in about 1977 and died a few years later.
Anyway...
My point is:
I LOVED Bill Oddie... I wanted to be him. However, now I think he is funless tosser. He looks angry in this video and looks as if he knows it's all a ruse and a charade and that he resents "fun". Now, nearing my death and being "Unplugged and Woken" as to the realities of Humanity, I realise that I and Bill (as per my wishes) are probably "ONE"... and thus my banal resentment of having to look as if I am "funny" in order to be popular inevitably grate and lead to disinterest.
Tim was funny (& still is)...Graham was funny (& still is)... Bill's disinterest, whilst appearing to be funny, made me who I am today, (...or did it?).
Either way... The Goodies ("Der Der Der der Da Da") had a huge influence on me growing up. One day my eldest sister will be dug up from under Jack Fee's patio... and then I can sell my tale and spend it all on Kit-Kats and Wagon Wheels and buy my own Yoga Mat.
p.s. Jack made my mum buy a packet of Rothmans and smoke some on her sun lounger.... but she was sick.
It's like an episode of a 70's-based sit com starring Noddy Holder. Maybe the Goodies make an appearance, Graeme could be played by Richard Ayaode. Bill looks a lot more interested in the TOTP version so I suspect he did it on purpose here to screw up some of the watching kiddies. There is hope and salvation yet!
Please tell me more stories.
That is without question the most intriguing comment I have ever read on RUclips.
Seriously underrated genius
The uk top 20music charts of 22 Saturday 29 March 1975
Ooh, that was the Bay City Roller!
Well............I've seen Bill Oddie in a new light now.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
This song is funkiest song i can think of,the use of clavanet piano organ is amazing
I miss the goodies
My dad used to make me watch theses on dvd I actually think I might be the yougest person here who knows them
Very good!
They're playing my song.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE COMEDY SONGS GONE? i miss them
Got them playing this at me funeral
Now I know why my wife's mother smashed this record into pieces when she was a child.
Isaac Asimov gets down and funky!
The Moody Blues thought they had penned a classic with Nights in White Satin but then along came The Goodies!
Knights in ... ??
Good music 🤤🤤🤤
Funny as still 😂
OMG.....I completely forgot about these guys. What a blast from the past !
i had this on my DS
watched em back in 1980
Best. Observation. Ever.
You win.
Just a classic
Sorry guys this would be my favourite goodies song the funky gibbon. Who wouldn't like to say oh oh oh the funky gibbon I love It I'm from Australia
omg soooooooo funny!!
Absolutely agree there should be more smashing guys like them. National treasures. Love these brilliant guys. Keep well guys. Love you forever
Came across this after watching "Would I lie to you?" Weird.
Thanks
Great CLAVINET part!!!
I think it was on Top Of The Pops
Amazing 🥱
I've got the single with sick man blues B side...
Bill Oddie was like John Travolta here
Very appropriate in May 2022!😂🤪😂
Them drugs man. Holy shit. Sitting around high. One of em says
" let's make a song called funky gibbon
Bill you are brilliant. Love l
Love this .......😂😂😂😂😂😂2:15 UK today
A friend of mine who's involved with the avant garde said that the Chorus of Cornelius Cardew's propaganda song, Smash The Social Contract, has an uncanny resemblance to the chorus of The Funky Gibbon. He's right.
ISWYM - but it doesn't have the thwack of Evening Standard on Steinway!
lol, people in our school have to sing this lol
This clip is on the bonus disk of the DVD, 'The Goodies: The Complete LWT Series'. Nowhere near as good as their BBC output, but still worth having.
The best
Guess this is where flight of the concords got their inspiration.
A young Bill Oddielol.
I always called him Bloddy.
How times change...
The guy with the beard went on to form ABBA. …. The other 2 are running a bar in Sheffield.
It's incredible to see footage from before entertainment was invented
yaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
Bloody hell was that the bay city rollers?
we need more silly songs tbh
Tim Brooke -Taylor looks like Peter Tork's podgy brother..............
I adored him as a kid but yes he is surprisingly chubby.
Rufus Thomas eat your heart out 😆